Why would they test this on their own, and only their own, embassies? It makes no sense. This has caused minor to moderate friction to the relationships between the host countries and the US. Much more likely that it is a 3rd country messing with international relations for their own benefit.

Residential vertical axis wind turbines is about the most inefficient method of generating electricity I can think of. The design is fundamentally inefficient, but that's not a big deal if you don't care about cost. The biggest inefficiency is the allocation of skilled labor. There is a finite amount of electricians, installers, manufacturing capacity, etc. More megawatts per skilled labor hour can be installed in big installations. It doesn't matter how many people you hire, industrial-scale is always better. It's more cost and manpower efficient.

Not everyone has a choice of electricity sources. I do, but many do not, and that is in the US where we have a lot of deregulated states and territories.

In China or other places I would strongly doubt they can choose their generation provider.

The guy is accused of rape and murder in Belize, in addition to being a unpredictable person with a violent temper.

Yes, there are many people who wanted to smear his reputation, but there are too many witnesses to his behavior to dismiss them all.

They should buy search.com from CBS or AskJeeves from Ask.com. It would be well worth the investment if they could get it at any sort of reasonable price.

One use I can think of is a submarine rescue system. If you could airdrop it into the sea near a submarine in distress, a support vessel could then directly tow it to the submarine location and begin a rescue attempt. I'm not sure if current vessels can be piloted remotely, but that would probably be necessary to expedite the rescue.

You could also drop supplies into remote locations in any weather conditions. As an example, the ability to drop supplies into Antarctica during winter could be useful. Currently, winter flights to Antarctica are very rarely attempted due to the high risk.

Proper security of any secure system is never finished.

Transaction fees are becoming considerable. Bitcoin average transaction fees are around $20 on average now, but on April 21 were $60. I believe if you are transferring within an exchange, the fees are generally much more reasonable or even "0" if the institution does exchanges based on a spread.

Coinbase is no Mt. Gox. They weren't amateurs when they started, they have been around a while, and they hold massive assets. It can be certain that some very smart people have tried to breach their security. While past performance is no guarantee of future performance, and it is always possible to rob a bank, if they have used the expertise of people who do IT security at banks, account security could be nearly as safe as banks. Without the FDIC/NCUSIF guarantees of course.

I believe TikTok was the convenient chump that the government could beat up a little so they could shake down the US-based companies.

You'll notice that many times when a big company gets a little too uppity or defiant, their CEO gets hauled into Congress for a dressing down. This doesn't happen to major military contractors or lobby-heavy companies like Uber though, because they're current on their campaign and superpac contributions.

This isn't an excuse for Amazon but I did home services for a while and bathrooms for mobile workers are a real problem. I kept my own schedule, but finding a place and a time was problematic. Some residential customers didn't invite me in, and in many other cases it didn't seem appropriate to ask. Other jobsites nobody was home so I couldn't have asked if I tried. Gas stations were hit and miss on availability and if they fit into my route. Grocery stores were possible in some locations but inconvenient due to the large parking lot. I found myself limiting my water intake and becoming chronically dehydrated. There were a couple occasions I had no choice but the bottle.

I have an office job now, but I sympathize with the workers who must plan their day around bathroom breaks. It sucks.

Not everyone makes a high salary working from home, or lives where real estate is cheap.

Maybe those people need a permanent cube then. I don't. I only have a guest office at my workplace, and I am there only very rarely. It's quite liberating because I don't have yet another physical space that I need to take care of, keep tidy, etc. And when I do go to the office, the focus is more on talking with people than actually sitting down and working on a computer.

I would argue the opposite.

China has issues with persecuting political dissidents, silencing members of the press, committing genocide against people who want to practice their religion and ethnic groups. They are making territorial expansions in Tibet, Hong Kong, and manmade islands in the sea. They are influencing Hollywood to not make movies that would make China look bad or go against what they want. Nazi German did literally all of these things.

North Korea also has issues with persecuting political dissidents. But, they don't have religious genocide because there is nobody practicing or trying to practice a religion. They don't have different ethnic groups, they aren't practicing or seriously attempting territorial expansion, they don't influence other country's cultural works, and they certainly don't push any other country around using economic policies or leverage. North Korea is painted the villain because they hold absolutely no power over foreign press. They are smaller fry than the cat sitting on the villian's lap.

I remember when Steam first came out and all the outrage about this. I boycotted them for a couple of years in the beginning. But losing dedicated servers and LAN modes was probably going to happen anyway, Steam or not. Computers audiences have broadened from the very technically-inclined people that played computer games in the 1990s. I may be out of the target age group, but I haven't heard of anyone I know having a physical 'bring your own desktop' LAN party in over a decade. When my kids go to other people's houses to play, they are mixing different devices (Android, ipad, Nintendo Switch) and getting some of those to work without a server somewhere else is probably more challenging than most people would bother with, not to mention some of these devices don't have the horsepower to run a server and a game at the same time. Cloud saves are very convenient, the tradeoffs are well worth it for the majority of people.

Steam has proven to be a benevolent dictator, and the Source engines are fairly open as far as engines go- otherwise we wouldn't have Gmod and all the crazy things people do there. There are tons of custom maps for TF2 If they should ever stop being customer friendly, well, good relations with the pirates I have.

I don't know about the other person but TD Ameritrade is putting up a lot of restrictions on Blackberry [BB] in addition to GME. They also raised margin requirements on BB which is trading a little hot but not nearly to the extent of GME. BB has had quite a bit of good news in regards to their future, it seems a bit arbitrary. It is setting a bad precedent that any stock that pops will be shackled down.